2009/6/2 Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com>: > 2009/6/2 Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es> >> >> El Martes, 2 de Junio de 2009, Jonathan Bennett escribió: >> > Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> > > Any comments? >> > >> > "Important to who?" >> >> And important for what? > > Well, if you are drawing a map then you want to know if something is > important for navigation. Like a landmark.
well, navigation is not the only purpose of maps, and in this example the mountainpeak might be a better landmark than the park. > It is of course possible to estimate (with a computer) how important > something is by analyzing the road network around it. Sometimes importance > follows roads and sometimes roads follow importance, but the correlation is > clear. yes, and sometimes there is a very important feature and no road to it. By using this kind of algorithm all motorway-crossings become "important" features (which they are to people in cars, but they are not to pedestrians, archeologists and cyclists). Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
